Yeah, the privacy aspect of EFF doesn't align with social media in general IMHO.
Are they trying to "earn" some $ from social media? That's a silly goal, but might be a nice side benefit.
Basically the EFF exists to defend pedo rights
You are disturbingly confused and thinking of the (GOP) RetardedKlan Party whose head is a literal 34-time convicted felon, pedophile who admitted in a Howard Stern video to invading locker rooms of underage girls at pageants, and all-around Treasonous Shitrag who wears caked orange makeup to hide his syphilis blemishes.
It's worse than that, because with proper skill, it isn't even a copy/pasta. It is one app that posts to everything all at once. Even the social media places that didn't make the list.
Buffer, Hootsuite, Metricool, Robopost or Later
One could probably tweak posts for each platform with AI effectively.
Here is the list they are staying with
Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube
So, where did the audience go? It didn't go to the existing places from 20-8 years ago. And I doubt it went to the two new kids.
What this tells me is that their audience is aging/dying off, and the younger generations aren't there in numbers. This requires little to no political inferences to understand. It is easy to mistake one for the other.
Yes, I am a Boomer. I don't rely upon AI to tell me what to think. I am also a Libertarian and interested in Privacy and been a long time proponent of Open Source. Maybe figure out what intersections to the younger generations align and go there.
It's really not the same thing. See my other post https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23961458&cid=66085502
I don't know how it will work with all the different firewalling options, etc., with Linux, but that's what makes it special for macOS (which comes with lsof, tcpdump, etc.)
It's really nice software. You don't just get a visualization of current connections, you can get popup of new notifications AND the option to set up incoming/outgoing rules. Something like "Firefox is attempting to access slashdot.org port 443:
Allow Once
Allow Firefox to connect to slashdot.org port 443 any time
Allow Firefox to connect to any server port 443 any time
Allow Firefox to connect to any server, any port any time
Deny Firefox all connections
When I got my first Mac laptop, around 2004, Little Snitch was one of the first pieces of software I bought. One of the nice things about the Mac at the time (and historically through OS 7 / 8 / 9 days) was there was a very strong small developer writing shareware culture. That's disappeared a bit more recently (in large part due to the rise of open source, Linux ecosystems, and so forth), but Little Snitch is still great. Another example, Adium remains one of the best chat clients I've ever used. BBEdit is very solid text editor that goes back to 1992! Etc.
That's the part that perplexes me. I can't say I have followed the Vision Pro that closely recently, but at least in the early days, it was very locked down. There are large parts of the system (sensors) that I understand are still not accessible to 3rd party apps. I remember reading several VR developers who were trying to port software from the Quest to AVP and simply couldn't.
To me it would have made sense to open it up entirely. Porn, video games, emulators, whatever!
Are you unsure what "agentic" means? Generically, agency means, more or less, being able to do things. An agentic AI program (ChatGPT in agentic mode, OpenClaw, Claude code) can take actions without being controlled by humans. This is also sometimes called an autonomous agent, but "agentic" has become the dominant term over last year or two.
If you were to try something like Claude code, for example, you would see that it can run shell commands, grep through a source tree, edit files, run git commands, compile, execute, review output, edit code, compile again, etc.
Your post is confused as it assumes that LLMs looking for security vulnerabilities are -- in your words -- "LLMs can unreliably find some defective code patterns if they are obvious enough. (Remember, they cannot do deduction, just statistical pattern recognition. Too much noise or too far from the template and they fail."
That is false. The LLM models in an agentic system are doing more than just looking for "defective code patterns."
LLMs can perform source code level analysis, but they can also, in agentic mode, run fuzzing tools, scan for open ports, write a custom program to attempt to fuzz or exploit an open port, review the output, modify the code to try again, compile, repeat, and so forth. Multiple instances of agentic AIs can do this for many hours and more.
As I've said multiple times before Gweihir, I really don't know if you're trolling or not. You've seemed at least somewhat informed before, so I'm really surprised you didn't know what agentic means, or what has been possible with these tools. ChatGPT agent mode has been out for about a year, and Claude code for a bit longer.
VisionOS 26.4 added support for foveated streaming. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple and Steam have been working together on this.
Then again, Apple's treatment of the Vision Pro perplexes me, so who knows what Apple is doing there...
Nice to know that Greg Kroah-Hartman doesn't know what's talking about--you should let him know that you've cracked that nut, since he is actively working on understanding the situation.
I would restrict that even further to "LLMs can unreliably find some defective code patterns if they are obvious enough". (Remember, they cannot do deduction, just statistical pattern recognition. Too much noise or too far from the template and they fail.) That is useful, but it is not a game-changer for the defenders.
That is not an accurate statement. The current round of discussions are centered around projects that in large part are agentic. Source code analysis is only one of the detection methods that is being used.
Disregarding the furthest extreme radicals on any side of a philosophical debate may generally be a good thing! Though, to be fair, sometimes it is the radical extremists that drive things forawrd. Kind of like the Overton Window..
Look, it's not complicated. Disregard everything that Sam Altman says. Disregard both the furthest extremes of the "AGI is here and sentient" / "LLMs are Godlike!" and the "LLMs are trash that are not useful and aren't going to improve and are a passing fad" (gweihir). All of the above are not insightful.
Everything has changed. ChatGPT-3 was released in 2022. Everything HAS changed since then, and LLM technology and models have improved dramatically in the last 4 years. Why would you not expect statements like "that used to be true, but not anymore" to be problematic? Humans couldn't fly, until they we could. We couldn't visit the moon, until we could. Changing your baseline assumptions is part of human progress.
Where exactly does supporting 3 people on $133k/year count as 'upper middle class'?
That's not what TFA said. It said "a family of three." That would, on the average, be 2 adults and a child. Two incomes, one dependent. Maybe that's what you're saying, but "supporting 3 people" makes it seem like you're talking about dependents.
The problem that we thought was a problem was, indeed, a problem, but not the problem we thought was the problem. -- Mike Smith
